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  • all my xbox games are now unplayable...

  • thanks buddy, good video

  • Like, like, like, a thousand likes. Your video solved my problem. Seems that there are a thousand different ways an XBox 360 drive can fail, and I feel quite lucky that I managed to find my way to this video. Nice one.

  • My disk drive will not spin, i have tried 2 different drives but its the same problem, this disks will not spin inj any of them

  • Thanks so much! Worked like a charm.

  • omfg pirate dvd

  • Nice vid

  • i need help with fixing my xbox 360 everytime i try to play a game on it, it returns to the opening screen and does it again

  • This dude sounds like will Ferell

  • every one my way on How to Fix Xbox360 Disk Tray is so much easyer the easyeist way in the world u dont have to take your console apart or nuffin like that ther is on only thing u will need to do and it is not hard at all it will probely be the easyest thing u have ever done in your life. all u will need to do is go to mi chanlle and watch the vid

    if u watch it leave a comment on wot u think and if it work's

  • @RemoteDaleD I heard the towel trick makes original xboxes work temporary is that true

  • @Theroguesunit6 that fix is for error codes (red rings) and i just used masking tape on the back vent where the two fans are and it would over-heat in 5-10 min. then simply turn it off pull the tape off then restart and you are good to go. sometimes it would go for 30 mins some times up to four days, then i just re applied the tape and repeat the proccess, and it worked for two separate error codes.

  • holy crap it worked!

  • !!!!!NOTICE: I HAVE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM BUT INSTEAD OF TAKING IT APART JUST TAKE THE GAME OUT AND HIT IT ON UR FLOOR WITH THE DISC TRAY DOWN (PLEASE USE CARPET TO SAVE YOUR X-BOX). HIT IT A COUPLE OF TIMES AND IT SHOULD MOVE THE LASER FORWARD JUST ENOUGH FOR IT TO READ THE DISC AND TAKE OFF!!!!!!

  • @surk27 mate your sick, my xbox has been fucked for ages just done what you said and its working again, thumbs up, cheers !

  • @AFCJSTAR If it happens again just keep doing what i said. it is absolutely harmless to your xbox. Glad to help :)

  • damn , XBOX 360 has so many problems , buy a Playstation 3 and you don't must fix something all the time

  • i cleaned the laser reader diode thingy with rubbing alcohol+a q-tip and it worked fine

  • can someone help me out?

    I got the same problem, but I don't know how to remove the thing on top cuz I have a benq drive. =[

  • I bet leaving it open helps with heat...

  • how do i get the magnet thing out of the disk drive

  • That method may work, but theres something more to it, I downloaded some games from xbox live and I get the unplayable disc error which is strange because the game is downloaded to my HDD, I also get the error while playing disc, plus I went through 2 xbox's and this is my 3rd, microsoft is full of shit and once this one goes out im getting a PS3

  • @FatalBWS did you ever figure out how to fix ur unreadable disc problem i have the same shit wrong with mine and having the hardest time figuring out how to fix it

  • Well I just fixed the 360 my ex stole from me last christmas, 11 months later I get it back and unplayable disc. 3 hours laters, "Frankenbox 3.6 Lives!".

    Ugh, now I have to get a decent controller and some sort of storage for it...but I am back online as Freonsmurf!

  • @erfravens And unplayable disc checklist.

    1. verify disc is clean and works in another console. I have used everything to clean my fav game from toothpaste to deodorant

    2 clean the lens on the laser inside the dvd drive

    3 put 360 in start on disc mode and give it a boost spin when the drive boots up and does the initial read.

    4 replace drive but keep controller cad of old drive & put it on replacement drive

  • My xbox worked fine until MW2 came out...i bought it the same day it came out(preordered) then a few months later...TA-DA my xbox wont read discs wtf! I think they did this on purpose

  • we have to do this and void the warranty and Microsoft wouldn't pay $0.25 to fix that problem

  • heres my promblem my magnet keep flying off but ur right this is the promblem i was solving but now its the magnet can some1 help or mail a new magnet piece

  • Thanks for the tip man, learned something new today.

  • I accidently put the magnet upside down errrgg!!!

  • hey uuh yesterday i made my mom angry so she hit kinda hard on top of mine xbox 360 elite could that do any damge tomine xbox imean the case will protect it right? it work normalbit iam cursiour plzsome1 answer me

  • yeah.......the only game it would not play was fifa but the other games it works fine.

  • i swear watching a cd spin is really hypnotizing...

  • This vid helped out alot, thanks for posting!! Its been over a year since Ive played my 360.

  • so i can play ps2 games on the xbox 360???? xD

  • you are the man dude!!!

  • what happens is i put the magnet thing in backwards? :(

  • thanks, this has helped alot :D

  • Will this fix the problem for the samsung drive as well?

  • I fixed my xbox the reason why it didnt want to read my any discz 4 me waz becuz tha polez tha laser eye slidez on waz dirty.. so maybe that will help some of ur guyz problemz with ur xbox not readin any cd..

  • if u open ur xbox ur pretty much fucking ur self in the ass because u cant send it in ever after u have opened it and if u do something to where u cant repair it u have to buy a new one

  • how can i fix this problem with my game (DC vs Mortal Combat, and GTA IV) cuz it will select "Play Game" on the dashbard and it will play the opening intro and then go and say "disc can not be read or clean the disc."

  • Clean the disc  duh

  • I have this problem though it's only happening to my Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 CD.

    all my other games are working fine.

  • dfg same with me but not it works and so do all my other games except madden 10 wont work

  • same here

  • @DFGfunnyDFG SAME

  • @DFGfunnyDFG is it scratched? lol

  • @DFGfunnyDFG same here, idk what its is it works on my bro xbox360 its just confuses me and when i use his disc it works on mine and my disc that doesnt work on mine works on his and its brand new mw2!

  • @DFGfunnyDFG same here,cept mine is SR2 

  • @DFGfunnyDFG same all other games play but mw2 which is shoking... because there is no scratches on the disc what so ever and also my shitbox plays normal xbox games !!! is that even normal for an xbox 360 ?

  • @DFGfunnyDFG same here same game

  • @DFGfunnyDFG cd lol :D okey dont take it personal ! its dvd dual layer

  • @DFGfunnyDFG YEAH exactly that's my problem too :(

  • @DFGfunnyDFG OMG ME 2 !!!!!

  • @DFGfunnyDFG mine too

  • You do know that there is a game called call of duty modern warfare 2, most people aren't playing WaW

  • mine was making the grinding noise and saying open tray. I cleaned the poles the eye slides on and the corkscrew that moves the eye. It still sounds rough but it works! Thanks for the help :)

  • hi i do not know how to get my xbox 360 open to do what u are doing

  • DONT OPEN OF YOU HAVE WARRENTY ON YOURE XBOX if you open it like that youll break the seal and you cant send it in ever again

  • @aldanskates it so true 360 is the worst fucking system my n64 work 500 times better than my shitbox and i have 2

  • f.ked my fifa 10:(,,,

  • how did you take out the magnet?

  • I played like that for like a year but then my disc wouldn't spin, I had to give it a boost, then after a couple a weeks my disc would stop suddenly and it would become very stiff to spin, so it still can mess, I might lube the laser and the motor and just buy a new drive for 22 dollars.

  • thanks man!

  • yeah xbox 360 sucks! i still have my systems from 1990's and they still work perfectly!

  • what the hell a black man who listens to soul and heavy metal!!??? i thought i was the only one haha

  • i bought a game from gamestop used and sometimes i play it and it says unplayble disc whats the problem?

  • Disc is dirty or damaged, try clean it if that doesn't help look for scratches if they are there. you either need to reapir it or buy a new copy.

  • can i ask u something, im not gud with tech so how do u tek the xbox apart to get to the dvd drive lol. girls r useless aint there. is ure xbox flashed aswel?

  • I had 3RROD 2 weeks ago, and spent hours on seeking a quick solution that works. I wasn't intended to waste $100 and wait days for repair. I finally found a cheap guide on 3REDLIGHTS (.) INFO and managed to fix it in 30 minutes. Hope it helps.

  • Thank you. I checked this out while on break from looking for answers for red ring of death. With three xboxes in the house this is a good heads-up for a problem. Now I'm ready if it happens.

  • is that a ipirated version of condemned? :P lol

  • hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

    me and my friend do that all the time lol

  • Can't believe that the Super Nintendo can last longer than Playstation 3 and Xbox360.

  • lol so true

  • I still have a Super Nintendo that I bought in the 1990's when it came out and it still works.

  • heres the thing my xbox will play dvds and cds but it won't play the games what the hell is wrong with my console

  • i just have the regular xbox360 drive. what do i do?

  • once you reapair your console can you put it back together again ? i mean that most of the people are playing after the repairs without putting the body back\

  • how do you know which disc drive you have

  • thanks mate that video could solve my problem

  • mine only dose it two farcry 2 but it never worked when i got it the other dan but all my other games work do you know what this means

  • does this help a 360 from scratching games? i was watching some vids and it says that there are no rubber pads on the laser that most lasers have to protect contact to the reader. can you help on this topic? thanks a lot.

  • Perfect, thanks!

    A friend gave me his "broken" 360 yesterday before being deported, but now it works just fine.

  • or buy a new one, from china for +- 19 dollars incl. shippingcosts on ebay! and sell you old one for parts :) works for me lol

  • thnx man that really helped me i had this problem for a long time and had no idea what was wrong

  • Zero 7- Simple things great background Music

  • I had the same problem do you think model glue will hold up?

  • 360s don't look like this anymore useless vid overtime

  • Can someone help me. Every time I put a disc in, it says Insert this disc into a 360. I have to keep ejecting over and over for it to finnaly work.

  • Years later this is still a good fix! mine had the problem, but not any more..

    CA mine around the edge and around the three holes, baby wiped the excess.. left over nite to dry.. tested all good.

    Thanks ..

  • i Got The Same Problem!! i Tried To Stick The Magnet in With Paper And The Top Magnet Just Vibrates When The Disc Is Spinning Nd It Still Wont Work, Any Suggestion!?? Plz Write Bak Soon 8)

  • Nice work x-box is running perfectly now. Thanks

  • i dont think my drive is hatachi but my problem is that i took my drive apart i put the little magnet peice on there but it just dosent spin,think you can tell me what my problem is?

  • yea dude.. i have the SAME drive you do.. on the very bottom in small print it says "philips" i think the problem is the middle piece wont spin freely enough

  • i just bought gears of war 2 today when i insert it it plays but when it gets to the game screen it says unreadable disc i need help >.>

  • same problem everywhere, on the net and stuff.

    solution? persistance. keep trying, it'll work, but crash randomly in the campaign. it sucks.

    or, install it to your hard drive. that way it wont even read off the disk.

  • fucking hitachi's i need a samsung drive tutorial godamnit

  • Dude I am so stoked about trying this fix out later. I bought NHL 09 the other day put it in and it says disc unreadable to me. Thankfully I tried other discs so I knew it was my xbox not the disc.

  • thank you for posting this vid my xbox had the 3 rings and 1 of the 2 fans stop working n now dis but thanks 2 u my xbox is up n running again take care  -brewster

  • thx for the video bro

  • can you use anything else to hold down the disk besides that magnet at the top of disc drive cover.

  • Check my PROFILE. Use the link. Get a free new xbox 360 and much more !

  • U know nothing...

    @ this video:

    This Video is great! I hope that many Boxes could be rescued with this Fix!

  • I know that id rather be playing my console than fixing it. Thats why i bought it in the first place. If i wanted to fix things id apply to work as a mechanic.

  • I'm no mechanic, but I can fix many things - even my 360 if I have to.

    Well... *like I already said*

    Learning by Doing^^

  • Like i cant. I just replaced my Mass Air flow sensor in my car yesterday. So what. Just because you CAN fix things doesnt mean you WANT to or that you should HAVE to.

  • Well I don't repair Gameconsoles every Day, but it also doesn't really mean that you have to say that PS3 is better than the 360 - it isn't! I got both Sysstems so... Well I can do Fixes, you can't - but you comment trash here - yeah, I guess you are really cool... XDDD

  • Oh by the way: I never used to fix my 360 - I bought it in March 2007 and it runs and runs and runs...

  • first of all I can fix systems too. Ive fixed way more complicated things, and built my own laptop from scratch. And just because your system didnt break down doesnt mean other people's havent. XBOX 360 has the worst failure rate of any system to date. So yeah i can say ps3 is better in this respect, because it IS.

  • Sigh.... fanboys why cant you just say they equally good consoles

  • yes it is the only thing that fucks up a 360 is the reliabilty problem if that is fixed than things could be different

  • Bones kills it!

  • this video is very helpful to some people who can not afforrd to have there 360 fixed. I rilly do not care if microsoft placed VOID on mine. I believe that they had all this planed out for the 360 users. so that way they can manage more money. But any ways my disc drive is having the same problem but i purchased a new disc drive from ebay and i am replacing the Chip but this video is helpful thanks man

  • Thank you so much dude ! Ive been trying to get this one 360 to work for quite some time ! Thank you

  • this works.!!! thank you guy i got three here that now work!!! .F**K the warranty and F88k microsoft for making a crap product

  • wow calm down retard (vectron12)

  • wow calm down retard

  • YOUR A FUCKIN DUMB ASS HE IS NOT BLACK YOU PIECe OF SHIT

  • yo i play with mine open up like this 2 is that ok?

  • dude, you warranty is VOID now

  • no shit..

  • DUDE NOW I GET IT

  • due you solved all my problems. I thank YOU alot for this video your a legend thanks alot dude appriciate your help

  • thanks dude!

  • very cool, what do you do for a living

  • why do all my old games work and not the new? plz reply

  • DUDE!!!! Now I have 2 360's thanks to you! 5 Stars!

  • what if its not a HL drive?  Im pretty shure I have a motor problem, but my spindel will not come off the motor?

  • then just buy a new drive and swap the data card inside it

  • This video actually helped me out a lot. I had the same error and I tried switching it out with another disc drive but I guess they had different disc drives...who knew.. then I gave it a try to fix the bad disc drive itself and this video helped me out with that a lot Thx man=)

  • If you were to buy a whole new hitachi drive would that just solve the problem of not reading discs? if so where can you get them drives? peaceeee x

  • Yes and no.

    This gets kinda tricky....

    1. You can switch the hitatchi drive out of another xbox, BUT it will not work unless you also switch the controller card. There is a link in my ghetto fix playlist on how to do this. If you just switch drives you will get the "Insert an xbox disc" error when you try to use it.

    So if you do get your hands on a 360 disk drive, by all means swap it in or just hold on to it for future problems.

  • its rediculous how they want 100 dollars to fix their shitty engineering now.... im considering just buyung a new console

  • hahahahah i did the same thing nicely i was just about to close everthing up and yes i decided to have a drink of pepsi and i dropped it all over the place in the xbox i havent turned it on for 3 days just waiting till everything drys up lets hope it works

  • did it work?

  • yh but th3n it turned oof half and hour later and then it didnt work i sent it to the xbox people they sed they will have to charge you to make it because you opened the xbox so never open the xbox other wise they will chrge you to make it again ok anyways i have to go fuck a hoe in the ass so peace out

  • careful don't drop anything into your open console dude.

  • Your a Genius!!! This worked like gang busters! Excelsior

  • Smart man... Smart man...

  • everytime i put a brand new disc it says "open tray" even though the disc is in. can someone help me plz

  • I've got the same problem!!

  • same here i wonder if it madders what year it is....mines a 2008

  • watch this video that will fix it

  • mines toshiba but i have the exact same problem,

  • Are you retarded?

  • is the problem when it ses "to play the disc insert a xbox 360 cuz i have that to

  • It makes me extremely happy that I could help my fellow gamers with this video!

    =^.^=

  • yep it works...save me gettin a new console....but this should not happen anyway.....

  • thanks bro. saved me cash money

  • doesnt the warranty get void

  • yeah

  • F*ckin kewl man! My 360 was down for 6months now and was thinking about buying a new one. Thought, there was nothing to lose so I tried out your instructions. F*ckin so glad I did, it fricken worked!!!! Thanx man, I owe the working of my 360 to you!!!

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  • okay so im a noob, but how do you get that top of the cover off? the part that you said that was on top of the top piece? by the way thanks for the info! this was the same problem i had!

  • There's a link in the description.

  • hey man u just saved my life i can finaly play xbox, i dont know why but the plastic and metal piece wernt connecting to the magnet so i took apart my xbox and now i play with no dvd drive cover because i have to put the plastic piece on the cd like in your video.

  • i love my 360 naked

  • my x box reads dvds fine but not games? ive ordered a screwdriver to open the metal casing but does anyone have any idea what the issue could be? laser maybe?

  • the exact same thing happened to me i dont no how to fix it but if u find out can u tell me it would be greatly appreciated

  • Man iknow you get this allot but thanks alot for the upload of this vid im moving to the country side soon and when i move im screwed no internet for a while and such and youve just shown me how to fix my 360 and now i wont be bored when i move :D 5/5

  • Straight up skill right there man,

    Is there any reason that you leave the cases open? Or is it just to make it easier to work on?

  • i have my xbox360 without its case and it solves my overheat problems.

  • yeah i had this problem once with my first xbox i just ordered a bran disk drive but it wasen't i hitachi one i ordered a samsung one because u can get 3 diffrent types of dvd drives for xbox the crapest one is the hatachi one

  • First I need to say Thanks! this totally helped me. and 2nd, I don't understand why people come on and say Oh PS3 this and that! If we wanted a PS3 we would of bought one. It's a fuckin electronic device I'd rather it crap out sooner then later. And what about the Blue ray issues they're having with PS3?

    If you like Playstation BUY ONE! if you like xbox BUY ONE! Quit fuckin bitching jeeze people.